Ministers can't take too long leaving the EU – stringing out Brexit is just what Remainers want

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She and her would love nothing more than for Britain to stay permanently in transition Credit:
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After last year's bickering over whether Brexit should happen, the Conservatives will have been pleasantly surprised to find they agree with Labour on where Britain should end up at the end of the process: out of the Single Market and Customs Union. Their main point of difference is around how fast they should get there in any transition period.